A 33-year-old Dallas police officer died Friday evening after he was shot twice during a confrontation in West Dallas with a man thought to have been involved in a southeast Dallas murder earlier this week.

The officer was rushed from the scene in the 4100 block of Bernal Drive to Parkland Memorial Hospital by another officer in a squad car. Dallas Police Sgt. Gil Cerda announced the officer's death at a news conference at the hospital.

Minutes after the shooting, at least two dozen Dallas squad cars converged on the scene, which was a West Dallas residential neighborhood. Police had guns drawn on a car parked cattycorner in a yard. Its windows and doors appeared to be riddled with bullet holes.

It was not immediately clear whether the suspect survived the gunbattle, or whether it was one or two suspects in the car.

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